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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 56m

I think these wealthy reactionaries probably see it as payment for services rendered so in one sense her business is doing very well

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Grace @gracekind.net · 3h

We did not tell LLMs, “implement addition using this algorithm.” It learned the algorithm upstream of next-token prediction

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1h

I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1h

The Brother Laser printer marches on

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1h

In almost all of these cases you can go and find an over engineered bougie version marketed towards weirdos that should last as long as the ones decades ago did, and are still cheaper

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1h

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2h

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1h

50 degrees and pouring in Portland, I wonder if this is the first snow of the season on the mountains?

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1h

Chief Petty Officer O’Brien put on administrative leave after old pictures of him in spoonface come out

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1h

The only people Schumer is locking up in his dungeon are other 👏 consenting 👏 kink-loving 👏 adults

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I'm in Oregon, it's pretty affordable here!

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

Rates in California are >3 times higher than in Oregon, to the point where some hybrids are cheaper than EVs. It's not good, and might get even more expensive

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

Some reasonable optimism, unfortunately I think that spiking electricity prices might be a major headwind in the short term

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 3h

Some not-so-pie-in-the-sky reasons to be hopeful for electric vehicles in the U.S., from @dangearino.bsky.social: insideclimatenews.org/news/0910202...

What’s Ahead for the US Electric Vehicle Industry After Hitting a Massive Speed Bump? - Inside Climate News

The sudden loss of tax credits hurts, but automakers are taking steps to mitigate the damage, and dozens of new models are coming soon.

insideclimatenews.org

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit, I vaguely remember the headlines but I had no idea it was this bad. What gets me is the number of people trying to report him for years and he keeps getting away with it.

Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 3h

@cooperlund.online

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 3h

Portland haters seething. Just too much twee

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16h

My friend was literally mauled by a mountain lion, and his friend was killed in the incident. This is insane because it's the first time it happened in like 100 years or something

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16h

ICE agents are almost certainly committing an incredible amount of rape, sexual abuse, and even worse things at the moment. If we make it through it's going to be shocking when it all comes out

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16h

Expertsexhange was such a blight in Google search results even after stackoverflow came into being

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17h

That's right. Nice part about fall and winter is that you can put on all those cozy warm extra layers and blankets

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17h

Our 10lb orange cat and our 60lb shaggy dog usually get along great, but today the cat has been on a hyperactive tear and has decided to relentlessly bully the dog and it's been pretty hilarious

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 21h

The entire online dating scene seems so cursed in many different ways, few of which were true back in the okcupid days. Just wildly adversarial and cynical

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 21h

One of Peter Thiel's boyfriends had a fall from a balcony after having a falling out with him, just as one little glimpse into that world

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder where in the distribution of sexual depravity among billionaires Epstein really lied. Was he in the 99%? 95%? 80%? Seems likely there's some dark shit going on we may never learn about

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 22h

I like how this skeet is literally true in every respect

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